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🎉 It's Chriiiiiistmaaaaas! 🎄

🥳 Had a lovely Christmas spending time with the family. Ate, drank and made merry.

🎁 Got some awesome presents from Katey on our first Christmas 😍 A 2026 calendar she made featuring my dog Ollie in famous movie posters is 👨🏻‍🍳💋

🎯 We had a competition at archery this week. 6 ends, scoring for the first time. I definitely do better under pressure! 2nd out of 11 people 🥳

🎰 Went to bingo for the first time in my life (work outing). It was really good fun! Cheap prices at the bar too. Didn't win anything but some people were winning thousands. I'll go again! 😂 👨‍🦳

🃏 Poker league final on Saturday. 8 players, I went in with a four-point lead. I needed to finish 5th to clinch it. Ended up winning the whole damn thing (4th win of the season) after a dramatic heads-up with Harry 🥳 🏆️

🃏 Poker league night on Saturday. Went into game 10 tied for the lead with Harry. Managed to take the win! Katey took 2nd, so we properly cleaned up. Now 3 points clear at the top of the league with two games to play.

💉 Flu jab done – yay vaccines! 👍️

⚽️ Was supposed to be watching Katey's son Tobey referee a football match on Saturday morning but the game was postponed due to Storm Amy rolling in 🌧️ ☹️

👕 Lost enough weight to drop a size so bought some new t-shirts

🍫 O2 gave me a £10 voucher for M&S Food so got a £20 box of truffles (discounted to a tenner) for free 😋

🧱 Spent Sunday afternoon building another LEGO F1 car and watching 90's movies

📝 Finally completed the formal training at work after five straight weeks. Met my team and new boss; think I've landed on my feet! 🥳

🌞 Another warm spell; about 25°C every day this week

🏋🏻‍♂ No weigh-in this week as my friend used one of her “hall passes” (and it applies to both of us). Took advantage and ate well, but back on it again now.

🍺 Went to the pub for a pay-day pint after work with my new colleagues

🃏 Played in our monthly poker league on Saturday; only six people this time, finished second. Extended my lead by four points with four games to go.

🧯 Completed the Fire and Bomb Warden training at work. Scored 100% on the test, so I can now officially put out fires with the correct extinguisher and defuse bombs. Maybe… 💣️💥

📚 Cambridge Latin Course I, Ch. 5 ✅

🏋🏻‍♂ Last week’s weight loss: –1.3 kg

🚘 Solved the car parking situation for the new job; it’s in the city centre so the only options are public car parks — found that a quarterly permit for the main shopping centre car park works out at £65 per mo. (~£2.95 per working day) with only an 8-min walk to the office, the best option by far 👍